[Zope3-dev] RFC: Content Providers and Viewlets

[Stéphane Brunet]

Stephan Richter wrote:

>On Monday 17 October 2005 12:21, Gary Poster wrote:
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>>Similarly to your comments, I'm worried about viewlets getting in  
>>Zope 3.2 without addressing the update problem, myself.  Maybe you  
>>can simply put an XXX or a warning and be happy with it: not my  
>>call. :-)
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>No, I will not distribute it unless we are in agreement. I will probably merge 
>the work into the trunk though, because I want SchoolTool to use it. ;-)
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>Regards,
>Stephan
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Hi,

I have just read the examples of Content provider and Viewlets and find 
them _really_ great, and even easier to understand than the present 
implementation of views with METAL macros, while providing unlimited 
possibilities. I have a two small questions however :

* If I decide to create a brand new skin, based heavily on content 
provider and viewlets, which sounds easier to do than the present way to 
do it, how should I provide the "glue" between the components which are 
not "content provider-capable" yet ?
* By creating the content provider, I could gather information from 
various kinds of object and provide a composite view of them. Is that 
right ?

Thanks in advance,

Stéphane